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Title: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: i30mania on June 25, 2009, 00:24:24: In owners manual page 120 its mention about Headlight Escort Function .
Does any of you have this function?
Is it can be activated?
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: MRH130 on June 25, 2009, 01:29:38: Quote from: i30mania on June 25, 2009, 00:24:24
In owners manual page 120 its mention about Headlight Escort Function .
Does any of you have this function?
Is it can be activated?

Mine doesn't have it, and it's the poshest one we get in Aus, but I know some European ones have a lot more equipment in them than ours, and would have it.

It would be controlled by the BCM (Body Control Module) and it isn't something that is switchable, at least in my BCM. It would be to do with the software in the module as to whether this function operates.

I think you'll find it'd be very hard to add it to a car that doesn't already have it. :'(
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Shambles on June 25, 2009, 06:47:53: Going off what MRHI30 has said about Body Control, is this something that turns the headlights to match your direction? Never heard its name before if it is.
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Pip on June 25, 2009, 08:33:05: Quote from: Shambles on June 25, 2009, 06:47:53
Going off what MRHI30 has said about Body Control, is this something that turns the headlights to match your direction? Never heard its name before if it is.
I don't know... but by the name I'm gunna guess it might leave the headlights on for a period after you get out so you can see your way. Even if it's not that it still sounds like a cool idea. :D
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Shambles on June 25, 2009, 08:44:15: Hmmm not sure about that, Pip.

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I think you'll find it'd be very hard to add it to a car that doesn't already have it.

Something that leaves the lights on would, I think, be very easy to retrofit.

Time to do some googling....
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Shambles on June 25, 2009, 08:51:07: Actually, scrub all my comments... looks like it is linked to the headlamp controls..

PDF attached if anyone's interested

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Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Pip on June 25, 2009, 09:06:31: Quote from: Shambles on June 25, 2009, 08:51:07
Actually, scrujavascript:void(0);b all my comments... looks like it is linked to the headlamp controls..

PDF attached if anyone's interested
Looked, didn't actually see a ref to "headlight escort" but the BCM is the computer, as you saw, that controls the electronics to do with doors, windows, lights etc.

Google gave me enough refs to the term "headlight escort" to make me think I'm correct or close in what it does even if I saw nothing definitive to do with cars.

MRH130 obviously knows. :D he'll chime in again...
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: i30mania on June 25, 2009, 16:40:43: Yes, you are right, some manufacturers call it "Follow me home" function

maybe Hemmi have it ? :D
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I don't know... but by the name I'm gunna guess it might leave the headlights on for a period after you get out so you can see your way. Even if it's not that it still sounds like a cool idea. :D
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Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Shambles on June 25, 2009, 16:49:56: Quote from: i30mania on June 25, 2009, 16:40:43
Yes, you are right, some manufacturers call it "Follow me home" function

If it is that, then I think it was YOSOYPEPO who fitted the feature himself...
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: eye30 on June 25, 2009, 18:48:13: Quote from: i30mania on June 25, 2009, 16:40:43
"Follow me home"

Did that once and her dad................ well this is a public site.
Say no more :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: MRH130 on June 25, 2009, 22:46:44: Yes the BCM is like the "brain" of the car, and controls all the other computers. Features like this, where the headlights can be set to stay on for 30 seconds or something after you lock the car so that the car will light your way to the door of your house or whatever are almost always controlled by a BCM.

You could rig something up to do it, but it could have unpredictable side-effects on the rest of the car. Like my brain most of the time, the BCM goes to "sleep" when you park the car and walk away. This shuts down all the non-essential electrical systems so that the battery doesn't run flat. With all the stuff in a modern car, if they don't go to sleep the battery runs flat pretty quickly. I have seen a lot of things added to cars that inadvertently end up keeping the BCM awake, with the predictable result of flat batteries if you leave the car too long between drives.

So, as I said, if the BCM isn't programmed to enable any systems in the car when it's parked, you can probably rig something to make it happen but I would expect other problems to come along. :wink:
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: Dazzler on June 25, 2009, 22:59:33: I don't care what they say about Volvo drivers Michael.. You're o/k :D
Title: Re: Headlight Escort Function
Post by: MRH130 on June 26, 2009, 03:48:51: Quote from: Dazz on June 25, 2009, 22:59:33
I don't care what they say about Volvo drivers Michael.. You're o/k :D

Haha yeah we're a persecuted minority but we're human like everybody else! :lol: